Hip-Hop Appreciation Thread

[swlabr]

I copied and pasted this from some other thread (it's me):

I remember when Spoon87 and I would defend Hip-Hop from the haters on the forum, lol.

Anyway, I love hip-hop. Rap is a completely different thing. It all depends on your connotation of the words. To me, rap is the mainstream "106 and Park" stuff which might include artist such as Lil Jon, Soulja Boy, and whoever else there is. To sum it up, it's pretty much the guys (and gals) that make "dem club joints" and songs that ask you to partake in "supermaning dat hoe."

Hip Hop, on the other hand, is the conscious, thought out, elaborate, songs that aims at changing or bringing up an issue, one that may be personal or one that affects the masses. Artists (yes.. artists) such as Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Nas, Big Daddy Kane, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang, Pac, Big use rhetorical devices so well you'd think it's Herman Melville rapping.

To me, hip hop is for the intellect and rap is for the fool.

This is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph

Check out the lyrics:

[Ol Dirty Bastard]

What y'all thought y'all wasn't gon' see me?

I'm the Osirus of this shit

Wu-Tang is here forever, motherfucker

It's like this ninety-seven

Aight my hooray for tolerance!z and my hooray for tolerance!rettes

Let's do it like this

I'ma rub your ass in the moonshine

Let's take it back to seventy-nine

[inspectah Deck]

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies

and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these

mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery

Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me

Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits

tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics

I inspect you, through the future see millenium

Killa B's sold fifty gold sixty platinum

Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics

Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths

Black Wu jackets queen B's ease the guns in

Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function

Heads by the score take flight incite a war

Chicks hit the floor, diehard fans demand more

Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly

Proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi

Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock

Wu got it locked, performin live on your hottest block

[Method Man]

As the world turns, I spread like germs

Bless the globe with the pestilence, the hard-headed never learn

It's my testament to those burned

Play my position in the game of life, standin firm

on foreign land, jump the gun out the fryin pan, into the fire

Transform into the Ghostrider, a six-pack

and +A Streetcar Named Desire+, who got my back?

In the line of fire holdin back, what?

My peoples if you with me where the fuck you at?

hooray for tolerance!z is strapped, and they tryin to twist my beer cap

It's court adjourned, for the bad seed from bad sperm

Herb got my wig fried like a bad perm, what the blood

clot, we smoke pot, and blow spots

You wanna think twice, I think not

The Iron Lung ain't got ta tell you where it's coming from

Guns of Navarone, tearing up your battle zone

Rip through your slums

[Cappadonna]

I twist darts from the heart, tried and true

Loop my voice on the LP, martini on the slang rocks

Certified chatterbox, vocabulary 'Donna talkin

Tell your story walkin

Take cover kid, what? Run for your brother, kid

Run for your team, and your six camp rhyme groupies

So I can squeeze with the advantage, and get wasted

My deadly notes reigns supreme

Your fort is basic compared to mine

Domino effect, arts and crafts

Paragraphs contain cyanide

Take a free ride on my dart, I got the fashion

catalogues for all y'all to all praise to the Gods

[Ol Dirty Bastard]

The saga continues

Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang

[u-God]

Olympic torch flaming, we burn so sweet

The thrill of victory, the agony, defeat

We crush slow, flamin deluxe slow

For, judgment day cometh, conquer, it's war

Allow us to escape, hell glow spinning bomb

Pocket full of shells out the sky, Golden Arms

Tune spit the shitty Mortal Kombat sound

The fateful step make, the blood stain the ground

A jungle junkie, vigilante tantrum

A death kiss, catwalk, squeeze another anthem

Hold it for ransom, tranquilized with anesthetics

My orchestra, graceful, music ballerinas

My music Sicily, rich California smell

An axekiller adventure, paint a picture well

I sing a song from Sing-Sing, sippin on ginseng

Righteous wax chaperone, rotating ring king

[RZA]

Watch for the wooden soldiers, C-Cypher-Punks couldn't hold us

A thousand men rushing in, not one black person was sober

Perpendicular to the square, we stand bold like Flare

Escape from your Dragon's Lair, in particular

My beats travel like a vortex, through your spine

to the top of your cerebrum cortex

Make you feel like you bust a nut from raw sex

Enter through your right ventricle clog up your bloodstream

now terminal, like Grand Central Station

Program fat baselines, on Novation

Getting drunk like a fuck, I'm duckin five-year probation

[GZA]

War of the masses, the outcome, disastrous

Many of the victim family save they ashes

A million names on walls engraved in plaques

Those who went back, received penalties for the axe

Another heart is torn as close ones mourn

Those who stray, hooray for tolerance!z get slayed on the song

[Masta Killa]

The track renders helpless and suffers from multiple stab wounds

and leaks sounds that's heard

ninety-three million miles away from came one

to represent the Nation, this is a gathering

of the masses that come to pay respects to the Wu-Tang Clan

As we engage in battle, the crowd now screams in rage

The high chief Jamel-I-Reef take the stage

Light is provided through sparks of energy

from the mind that travels in rhyme form

Givin sight to the blind

The dumb are mostly intrigued by the drum

Death only one can save self from

This relentless attack of the track spares none

[Ghostface Killah]

Yo! Yo! Yo, fuck that, look at all these crab hooray for tolerance!z laid back

Lampin like them gray and black Puma's on my man's rack

Codeine was forced in your drink

You had a Navy Green salamander fiend, bitches never heard you scream

You two-faces, scum of the slum, I got your whole body numb

Blowin like Shalamar in eighty-one

Sound convincin, thousand dollar court by convention

Hands, like Sonny Liston, get fly permission

Hold the fuck up, I'll unfasten your wig, bad luck

I humiliate, separate the English from the Dutch

it's me, black nobled you Ali

Came in threes we like the Genovese, is that so?

Caesar needs the greens, it's Earth

Ninety-three million miles from the first

Rough turbulence, the waveburst, split the megahertz

[Raekwon]

Aiyyo that's amazing, gun in your mouth talk, verbal foul hawk

Connect thoughts to make my manchild walk

Swift notarizer, Wu-Tang, all up in the high-riser

New York Yank' visor world tranquilizer

Just a dosage, delegate my Clan with explosives

While, my pen blow lines ferocious

Mediterranean, see y'all, the number one draft pick

Tear down the beat God, then delegate the God to see God

The swift chancellor, flex, the white-gold tarantula

Track truck diesel, play the weed God, substantiala

Max mostly, undivided, then slide in, sickenin

Guaranteed, made em jump like Rod Strickland

I put the best part in bold.

Discuss anything else, plz.

[Carne_asaDA]

Rocksteady Crew

NYC Breakers

Air Force Crew

B-boy Ivan

Wild Style

....that's Hip Hop.

If you don't know, then google and youtube.

[Raw Power]

Good stuff:

Jurassic 5 - Quality Control

Jurassic 5 - World Of Entertainment

RJD2 - Ghostwriter

Plus a lot of The Roots. I saw them live this summer, what a great band.

[F*ck Fear]

Good stuff?

Just kidding, don't hang me just yet.

[swlabr]

"Pantera" and "good" don't mix.

imma check that out da illest.

Edited January 3, 2008 by swlabr

[F*ck Fear]

"Pantera" and "good" don't mix.

imma check that out da illest.

Maybe not, but "Pantera" and "Greatness" go together well..

[Guest Satanisk_Slakt]

I don't like hiphop.

[Syk]

I don't like hiphop.

its not really my thing either..

[Death Star]

Got Three Six Mafia on right now! Thats the good shit!

[Spuffy78]

Dr. Dre

Public Enemy

N.W.A.

Wu-Tang Clan

Tupac

all good stuff.

[Guest banaszkiewicz]

I don't like hiphop.

its not really my thing either..

well i respect that

as long as you dont bash it for no reason

if rap raped you as a kid, then you can bash it all you want

on topic, i really enjoy hiphip/rap

not so much the mainstream stuff

but the music my brother shows me is pretty good

the rhymes, the beat is really enjoyable

[AxlsAngel]

So, is there a difference between hip-hop and rap? I don't listen to much of it, but I LOVE Eminem. I've been listening to him a lot lately.

[Guest Satanisk_Slakt]

I don't like hiphop.

its not really my thing either..

well i respect that

as long as you dont bash it for no reason

I usually don't bash music. Since this is genre I've never cared for, I don't know much about it. I've just heard the shit (My own opinion. I think Snoop Dog and 50 Cent and whatever they're called sounds like shit) on radio, but of course I understand that there are more, different and probably better things out there. But since I've got no interest in this genre I wont check it out. And since this is a appreciation thread for this genre it was stupid of me to post in the first place. Now I wont post here anymore.

[Death Star]

Just downloaded an Indo G (Three Six Mafia related) album. That's good shit.

[Carne_asaDA]

So, is there a difference between hip-hop and rap? I don't listen to much of it, but I LOVE Eminem. I've been listening to him a lot lately.

Hip Hop is the entire culture that includes Rap, Breakdancing, Graffiti Art, and DJing.

Don't get it confused with the "industry" garbage that they claim to be hip hop. Meaning all of the bling bling, materialistic shit that you hear on your radio and TV.

[wasted]

Is Beyonce hip-hop culture?

[krissirge]

N.W.A.

Easy-E

Cypress Hill

Beastie Boys

Run-DMC

Public Enemy

Limp Bizkit

[Carne_asaDA]

Is Beyonce hip-hop culture?

NO!!!!!!

[Carne_asaDA]

Here is one music video that I found that will sum up what real Hip Hop is all about......

[DopeSickGirl]

NWA

Public Enemy

Grandmaster Flash

Sugar Hill Gang

The Fugees

Jay-Z

50 Cent (I don't care what anyone says, I like him.)

Tupac Shakur

..if I gave it some more thought I might be able to think of more

xDSGx

[KD]

I don't like hiphop.

..neighter do i.

[ffrankwhite]

i'd be here all night naming hip hop artists i like...

[AxlsAngel]

So, is there a difference between hip-hop and rap? I don't listen to much of it, but I LOVE Eminem. I've been listening to him a lot lately.

Hip Hop is the entire culture that includes Rap, Breakdancing, Graffiti Art, and DJing.

Don't get it confused with the "industry" garbage that they claim to be hip hop. Meaning all of the bling bling, materialistic shit that you hear on your radio and TV.

Thanks That's what I thought. I used to listen to it a lot when I was younger. Actually, it was more like I was exposed to it frequently. I had a couple exboyfriends that were heavily into it - 2 Live Crew, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and a ton of others I don't remember right now. I always enjoyed it for the most part. Eminem is my Main Man now though.

[FunkyMonk]

You guys happen to know any good rap-metal?

Edited January 4, 2008 by FunkyMonk

[Zeppelin]

Anyone know when Nas' Nigg*r comes out? I heard it was delayed. Good rap/hip-hop? Check out either Dalek or Saul Williams.

Edited January 4, 2008 by Zeppelin